John wrote tonight to claim that Senator Scott… is… something. Or another.
I can’t really tell if John had any point. It seems more a launching point, for a scree about how unfair it is that… there aren’t many (any) other black republican senators.
Let us speak plain: of the eight Black Senators since 1960 (putting aside the post Civil War Reconstruction-era south)… only two have come out of the GOP. In 60 years — only two.
Call me crazy, but I’d say Occam’s Razor would blame the GOP, not the Democratic Party — for the inability to appeal to, or elect people of color.
Here’s the US Senate’s official rundown, on its website — the topic. John wholly omits it:
“…To date, 10 African Americans have served in the United States Senate. In 1870 Hiram Revels of Mississippi became the first African American senator. Five years later, Blanche K. Bruce of Mississippi took the oath of office. It would be nearly another century, 1967, before Edward Brooke of Massachusetts followed in their historic footsteps. Carol Moseley Braun broke new ground in 1993, becoming the first African American woman to serve as U.S. senator. In 2005 Barack Obama of Illinois became the fifth African American to serve and third to be popularly elected. Upon Obama’s resignation to become the nation’s first African American president, Roland Burris was appointed to fill the vacancy, becoming the sixth African American senator and the third to occupy the same Illinois Senate seat. Tim Scott of South Carolina was appointed to fill a vacancy in 2013, becoming the first African American since Reconstruction to represent a southern state in the Senate. He won a special election in 2014 to complete
the term and was elected to a full term in 2016. The appointment of Massachusetts senator William “Mo” Cowan on February 1, 2013, marked the first time that two African Americans have served simultaneously in the United States Senate. Cory Booker of New Jersey became the ninth African American senator when he won a special election to replace Senator Frank Lautenberg on October 31, 2013. Booker won election to a full term in 2014. Kamala Harris became California’s first African American senator on January 3, 2017, bringing the number of African Americans serving simultaneously to three and the total number of African American senators to 10….
I will note with pride that half of the six are from Illinois — and I personally worked to elect three of these fine people, if I include Kamala Harris (but not Roland Burris — a pure opportunist / carpetbagger).
So… yeh — John has essentially… no point. No point, at all.
Tim Scott is a man alone, on an island — an island… of his own making. He was trotted out to defend a completely craven police power grab bill — rather than the GOP Senate offering real reform, like that passed in the US House.
Precious. He is being exploited, but is a willing shill, too. Silly.
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